Linked by Rahul on Mon 13th Oct 2008 21:19 UTC
Linux Foundation is organizing a end user collaboration summit this week. A major topic will be a presentation on the new upcoming filesystems - Ext4 and Btrfs. Ted Tso, who is a Linux kernel filesystem developer on a sabbatical from IBM working for Linux Foundation for a year, has talked about the two-pronged approach for the Linux kernel, taking a incremental approach with Ext4 while simultaneously working on the next generation filesystem called btrfs. Read more for details.
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RE: Btrfs not purely from parent's basement?
by MamiyaOtaru on Tue 14th Oct 2008 06:05
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Member since:2005-11-11
I've made this point before, but the heavy lifting of Linux, for nearly the past decade has come from Corporations and their funding of engineers to put in the code and time.
Two responses:
1: duh
2: so?
You may proclaim it superior to closed source, but the reason they are doing it is Time to Market. If they could have built a solution faster and equal in a proprietary vein you betcha they'd do it.
Paraphrase: "you might say it's superior, but get this, they're only doing it because it's actually superior." Why thank you for that insight. That's sort of what we were saying.
RE: Btrfs not purely from parent's basement?
by Liquidator on Tue 14th Oct 2008 06:14
in reply to "Btrfs not purely from parent's basement?"
Member since:2007-03-04
Member since:
2005-11-21
I've made this point before, but the heavy lifting of Linux, for nearly the past decade has come from Corporations and their funding of engineers to put in the code and time.
You may proclaim it superior to closed source, but the reason they are doing it is Time to Market. If they could have built a solution faster and equal in a proprietary vein you betcha they'd do it. I'm just glad they can't justify the cost and tow it alone so they've brough it into the open for us all to draw upon and add into, however minutely, as time goes on.